US Navy personnel helping to look for missing Malaysia Air Flight MH370 have used the signal-processing
and analysis package Spectrum Laboratory by Wolf Buescher, DL4YHF, to analyze recently detected 37.5
kHz "pings" that may be from the missing plane's "black box." Some Spectrum Laboratory screen shots
as seen aboard the Australian defense vessel Ocean Shield were shown on TV in Australia and in the UK.
The US Navy personnel are guests aboard the Australian ship. VLF experimenter Warren Ziegler, K2ORS,
said the software is the same package Amateur Radio experimenters used recently to detect transatlantic
signals on 29 kHz.
"Wolf's package is first-rate software, and I know that
there have been other professional uses, but this was
quite an interesting one!" Ziegler said.
The software began as a simple DOS-based FFT
program, but it is now a specialized audio analyzer,
filter, frequency converter, hum filter, data logger, and
more. It's available for download from DL4YHF's
Amateur Radio Software site.
Buescher said he was skeptical about the initial "ping"
detection by a Chinese search vessel, but later called
the spectrogram taken by the US team aboard Ocean
Shield "convincing." He said a screenshot from
Australian TV clearly shows the "bip-bip-bip" ultrasonic bursts or pings, "just as they should look," he
said, rather than a "just a wobbly carrier that comes
and goes."
"In slow-CW terms, it would be an 'outstanding
signal.'" Buescher said. "Now keeping fingers crossed
that the ["black box"] batteries last a bit longer than
specified. The experts say the pinger's battery usually
degrades slowly, instead of going QRT abruptly."
At mid-week, searchers had detected additional, more
promising pings that appeared to conform to the
pattern of those expected from an aircraft black box.
TV video of an analyst looking at "pings" using
Spectrum Laboratory, as seen on Australian TV.
A Spectrum Laboratory screen shot from British
television

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Dennis, K9VMY, gets around. Here he is with Ron N8NIX at the Chicago FM Club (CFMC) Hamfest in Belvidere. IL, Sept 10, 2011